Definition of "imbrue"

imbrue

/ɪmˈbɹuː/

verb
third-person singular simple present imbrues, present participle imbruing, simple past and past participle imbrued
1. To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.).
  Quotations
  Armed with the weapon which was destined to destroy himself, Imnaz sprang down the ladder, — found the door, and, emerging from the abode of crime, sought a more secure resting place, leaving his hostess to discover, with return of day, in whose blood were imbrued the hands of an hospiticide.
  1837, Edward Smallwood, Manuella, the Executioner’s Daughter ; A Story of Madrid, volume II, Richard Bentley, pages 275–276
  "I've been sacrificing so to strange gods that I feel I want to put on record, somehow, my fidelity—fundamentally unchanged, after all—to our own. I feel as if my hands were embrued with the blood of monstrous alien altars—of another faith altogether.
  1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors‎